Welcome To Cleveland Part 1

yay andrew!!!! my nerdy-bear is a hero! lol this is sooo good! can wait for more!
 
I'm glad that you guys are enjoying this fic, hell, I'm enjoying writing this fic. And for those of you that REALLY enjoy I remind you that one of this months categorys in the member awards is Best Fan Fic Writer. I'm not saying I am the best (Not even close actually) on these boards. But a few nominattions would be just as good as winning. Alright, enough self promotion, here is the laatest update:

"Can you walk?" Xander asks as he helps Willow to her feet, putting an old cloth on her wound. Kennedy is back up in time to help her girlfriend.

"Yeah, I think I can handle it. Of course with a little help." Willow says cozying up to Kennedy.

Kennedy looks at Xander. "So did the Mizerak defeat us?"
Xander gives her a grin. "Actually, he was defeated. He's letting us gathered the hurt, so we can all gather around and tell us the location of the hell mouth."

"Wait," Kennedy begins very curious. "If I didn't beat him, and Willow doesn't like she was successful, neither does Vi, how were you able to throw him out?"

Xander looks over at Andrew who is dragging Vi over to the stone circle, she looks like she'll recover soon. He smiles at Kennedy. " It wasn't me either."

Kennedy looks confused at this, she can't fathom who did end up defeating the Mizerak. Willow, who saw a little bit, answers Kennedy's question. "Andrew beat it."

Xander loves the look of shock on Kennedy's face. "Yep, the one you termed as useless, just got us a ticket to finding the hell mouth."

Kennedy looks amazed. "Wow, wonders never cease do they?"

"They really don't." The Mizerak answers from his stone platform. "I've never been defeated by a human with no slayer abilities or powers."

"Bet you're a little ashamed, aren't you?" Xander asks the demon who sits perched on his stone.

"I beat two slayers and witch, I have no reason to be ashamed. The Summoner just out smarted me, very wise summoner." The Mizerak gazes at Andrew who sits Vi down in front of the demon. "Is the youngest slayer recovered yet?"

"I think she is coming to." Andrew answers still very shaken at the stupid but brave thing he just did.

Vi sits up indian style trying to wake up from that deathblow the Mizerak just gave her. "I'm up, what happened?"

"That explanation will have to wait for another time." The Mizerak stares at Xander with enraged eyes. "I grow tired of this world, are you ready to find out the destination the hell mouth."

"Yes, let's just get this over with so we can all just go to bed. Is anybody else with me on this one?" He looks over at the rest of his crew, he is the only one who is at hundred percent health.

"Sounds good to me." Willow answers in Kennedy's arms.

"Me too." Kennedy agrees making sure the scythe is nearby.

Xander looks over at Andrew who has been fairly quiet for the last couple of minutes Andrew gives him a look of agreement as does Vi who is now out of Andrew's arms. Xander nods at the Mizerak as that the whole group is in agreement that they want this night to end. "Okay, we are all ready to hear what you have to say. So where is it?"

The Mizerak grins. "The Hell mouth is located at "¦." All of a sudden a green energy hits the Mizerak, disintegrating the demon into many pieces. The five looks shocked as the demons stone plat form disappears.

"What the hell?" Xander exclaims realizing at that very moment that this has been pointless.

Andrew looks at him. "Wh"¦what just happened?"

A voice from behind them speaks up. "The big demon fellow just went boom." They turn around to see two identical twins dressed in gothic clothing, both carrying stakes, with wide smiles on their faces. The one talking looks at her sister. "Ain't that right Elaina?"

"That is correct Eliza." The tells her sister as they approach the five scoobs, getting ready to battle.

Kennedy immediately stands raising up her scythe, also ready for battle. "Who are you?" She looks at Vi is still struggling to get to her feet, still in pain.

The one refered to as Eliza speaks up "We are the chosen ones and we have come to collect on what is rightfully ours."

Xander who stands between Kennedy and Vi has an idea on what is going on here. "I smell ambush guys."

"You are correct." The other one, named Elaina confirms Xander's fear right as Andrew and Willow and himself are flung backwards by some unknown force. Andrew hits a nearby tree, leaving him unconcious for the rest of the fight, Willow slides into some bushes, Xander soon lands ontop of her.

Kennedy charges at the two sisters raising up her powerful weapon, Vi grabs a nearby staff and follows her slayer counterpart. The one named Eliza begins throwing blows back and forth with Kennedy as Vi does the same with Elaina. The first thing Kennedy notices is that these girls don't fight like vampires and even armed with stakes compared to their weapons they are able to block and defend each move. Kennedy is able to hold her own using the scythe to block each move and counter move, but it looks like Vi is having a much harder time defending against Elaina due to her injuries. Mid way through the battle with these two insane girls, Kennedy realizes who she is fighting, these two sisters are both slayers.

Xander gets up, then helps Willow to her feet. She looks at him very worried at this little ambush that has just taken place. "Look at those girls fight."

"Yeah, looks like we found two new slayers, probably not on our side by the looks of things." He looks over Andrew realizing that he isn't going to be much more use for the rest of the night, he's already done his part. He and Willow race towards the girls than another funny thing comes to mind. "What about the blast that took out the Mirzerak? And the force that sent us flying? Did they do that?"

"Last time I checked slayers didn't have that kind of power."

"So there's another force involved with this attack I'm guessing." He suddenly hits an invisible wall of some sort as does Willow, the two fall on their butts.

She looks at him and nods. "I'm guessing yes."

Vi gets slammed right into the force field protecting them from Willow and Xander helping. Now the two girls double team Kennedy, the scythe falls to onto the grass and the girls keep beating on Kennedy with sharp kicks and punches, but the girl won't go down. Xander looks at Willow feeling oh so screwed. "Do you think you can debarrier the uh barrier?"

She looks at him unsure, she doesn't even know how much power she has left. "I don't know, I can try."

"Well try, your girlfriend is getting her ass kicked."

That is more than enough to motivate Willow to try something, her hands glow a reddish color as she gathers her energies. Xander prays to himself that this works, that Willow has something left in her. She touches the force field with her glowing red hand and begins to scream in major pain. Xaner watches as Willow glows a green color and continues to scream. He cringes as he pulls her away from the force field, not only was she not able to undo the force field, apparently that was also a trap, a way to disable Willow even more.
Meanwhile, Elaina and Eliza finally get Kennedy down on the ground, the two slayer sisters laugh at Kennedy. Eliza grabs for the Scythe as Elaina continues to kick Kennedy in the gut with pleasure written all over her face. Eliza's eyes glare as Elaina walks up to her finished with her pummeling of the other slayer. "Does it feel as powerful as our watcher said it would?"

"Even more sis, even more." She hands it over to Elaina and her eyes begin to glow with even more pleasure. "Better than sex."

Xander looks at his fallen comrades and then notices that the forcefield is now gone, he is the last chance to retrieve the scythe. He runs after the two girls with maybe the same rage that Andrew had earlier, they notice him and laugh at his attempt that is going to fail. He tries to tackle Eliza, but she easily throws him aside. Elaina, walks up to him and kicks him in the gut laughing while swinging the scythe. He guesses that the only reason he did it was to feel like part of the group getting his ass kicked as well. "Well, I hate to spoil the party Eliza, but we need to get this to the watcher."

"You have a watcher?"

The two look down at Xander who is in pain. Eliza answers him with pleasure. "Don't all vampire slayers have watchers?" The two walk off knowing that they have defeated adversaries, Xander is shocked to see them holding hands while doing so. "Bye, bye, phony watcher."

Xander closes his eyes for what seems eternity, he doesn't want to open them. How could those girls have watchers? Is the council up to no good again? But finally, he opens them as Kennedy helps him to his feet, her nose is bloodied and she has bruies all over her forehead. He looks at her with a look of failure. " They have the scythe."

She also looks upset. "This was a set up, they knew that we would try and summon the Mirzerak."

"But it's not just them, there was another force involved."

Vi limps up towards them. "They knew how to weakness us. They knew our moves, how could they know our moves?"

"I don't know but things are making sense now. Willow's loss of magic, not being able to find the hell mouth, no records of weird happenings. Someone had this all planned." Xander gets up as he and the girls walk up to Willow who is still shaking on the ground from the force that took her out. The three are basically helping each other walk by holding onto eachother shoulders. They all help Willow to her feet, conjoining her to their chain gang, she holds tightly to Kennedy.

"Are you okay baby?" Kennedy asks her girl who is still in a trance.

"It's all gone, my magics all gone." To Xander she looks as defenseless as she did back in high school before they met Buffy. "I can't feel anything."

The four, interlocked, slowly limped to where Andrew lays. "It's probably just a passing thing, you'll be fine in no time."

"Xander," with a very caring voice. "Don't lie to me, someone must have spent a lot time planning this attack. We can't do this without Buffy."

"Don't say that, Will." Xander is still trying to fathom the events of the last hour. "We can do this solo, there is always a way."

Kennedy refuses to believe that. "That's bull! They have the scythe, they disabled Willow, they have eliminated our only way of finding the hell mouth. They have the power."

All four find Andrew, who is now coming to, and they help him up. He interlocks with them, not saying a word he takes a comfy spot next to Vi. Right now it seems like nothing to either ofem, but they will be thinking of that moment for the rest of the evening, even more than getting their asses kicked. Xander is practically talking to himself now. " What is behind all of this?"


They don't notice that they are still being watched from behind the trees and bushes. The figure smiles beneath his hood. Pleased with what has transpired, his plan has gone accordingly. "The answer is very simple, young Mr. Harris." He laughs under his robe, knowing that Xander and the rest can't hear or see him. "CHAOS is behind all of this."
 
Alright here is the next update, this is probably the weirdest of my entriess but it does play into the storie. And it doubles as a homage (I.E Ripoff) of one of my favorite Buffy episodes. Here it is:

"I thought she was bad when she was evil, but now she is just useless." Xander speaks from the living room.

Willow wakes up from deep sleep in shock that her child hood friend is saying things that she though she would never hear from him. She rolls her arm over to snuggle up next to Kennedy, but her lover isn't there at this moment. Still, drousy she looks at the alarm clock, 9:30 P.M, how long has she been sleeping for. She remembers the ambush and getting knocked back from the force field and all of her mojo had being absorbed by something, the rest is very blurry. But has she been knocked out for a whole day? She listens in more the conversation that is going on in the living room of the apartment.

"Tell me about it, your not the one who has to sleep with her." Willows gulps as Kennedy says this. Are her friends really conspiring against her?

"If it wasn't for her things would be so much easier for me." She hears Andrew complain.

She can't take anymore of this, she needs to know what is going on. She slowly gets up from her bed, she feels so light as she walks. She slowly opens the door to the living room as her friends don't stop the complaining. Xander stands in middle of the living room in a suit that Giles would usually wear. "For the last two years I had to be her moral support after she skinned Warren." He pauses. " Do you know how frustrating that is?" The funny thing is that he is looking right at her as she says this.

She walks deeper into the hall to see the rest of the group, Vi sits on a chair dressed in something out of "Chicago", black glitter and all, on the couch sits Kennedy who is dressed in a "Joan Of Arch"-ish costume. (Much like the costume she wore years back when she was in college.) Next to her sits Andrew, but it isn't really Andrew, Willow doesn't notice this though, in her mind Andrew is instead Warren. Again, this doesn't phase her, there is actually no difference to Willow. Andrew/Warren sits up and looks at her. "It's about time you are up. You've been out for days."

Willow looks at them very confused. "What happened."

Xander smiles beneath his eye patch. " Trying to figure out what to do with this mess we are in. Kennedy has softened up since you two started knocking boots, you killed Andrew, and your incredibly useless." He looks into the kitchen. "What do you think Oz?

She turns her gaze over to the kitchen and inside, making a sandwhich, is her old and only boy friend Oz. He looks over at her, really making no emotion what so ever. "Oh, I've been here forever."

She looks at Xander who now has both his eyes. "Xander, what's going on?"

"Why don't you tell us? You have always been the know it all. My girlfriends dead."

"Well, I woke up and heard you guys saying incredibly inappropriate things about me. And how dare you"¦."

She stops as she notices Oz open the fridge and inside is Buffy Summer's decapitated head. He looks at the others, confused. " Who left Buffy's head lying around?"

"Andrew I told you to put that in a zip lock bag." Xander hits Andrew over the head with a newspaper, then gazes back on Willow. "Willow, why don't you do something about that? Put the pieces together and bring her back to life."

"I already did that once."

"And how did that work out?" Vi stands up asking Willow.

A familiar voice over head speaks out from above. "You know the answer."

They all look up and now Kennedy looks at her. "Oh yeah, that's the whole reason we are here isn't it? Because Willow was afraid of going on with life without her precious slayer."

"What?" She has no clue why they are saying this.

"Xander," Oz calls from the kitchen ignoring the decapitated Buffy head. "Where's the cheese?"

A balding man with glasses walks into the kitchen holding a tray of cheese walks in. "Into each generation a cheeseman is born." The man says as Oz grabs a slice off the tray and the man walks off.

Oz puts the cheese in his sandwhich and takes a bite. " Tastes like Gnarl."

Willow spins back around to the group, but the group is gone and now she is on the front porch of the Summer's house. In the front yard is Kennedy, who is swinging her scythe and yelling out what seems to be the lyrics of Dexy's Midnight Runner's "Come ON Eileen." Willow walks off the porch and to her lover, forgetting for the moment what just transpired. Before she can get there, a figure stomps past the picket fence holding something towards Kennedy. "Oh god, no!!"

"YOU TOOK HER FROM ME! YOU B!*CH!" Tara screams as she raises the gun towards Kennedy. Three shots and Kennedy is dead, blood seeping into the green grass. Tara smiles at Willow who is looking at what her dead lover just did.

"Tara, why did you kill Kennedy?" Willow asks shocked.

"Do you think I'm happy for you?" Tara smiles an evil smile that the real Tara wouldn't. "You replaced me with this little brat. Plus, nobody like Kennedy." As she says that line, it looks like a thousand people are behind her nodding in agreement.

"Honey," Willow begins. " I had to move on, I had to let you go."

As Willow stares at somebody who was once hers, a voice behind her speaks up. " Pay no attention to that."

She turns to the porch to see the last person she thought she would see in her dream, Jonothan. But not the nerdy Jonothan from High School, but the cool, superstar version that he tricked everyone into thinking he was for a few days. "What are you doing here?"

Jonothan shrugs and gives her a cool smile. "You know me, I tend to pop up every once in awhile." Willow looks back realizing that Tara is gone. "Actually Willow, for some reason your conscience has chosen me as your spirit guide, why? I'm not really sure."
"What's going on? Am I dreaming?"

Jonothan looks at her with honest eyes. "Yes and no, really. Your are being played with, actually you have been being played with for the last week or so. These dreams or more likely hallucinations is the way they are able to weaken you enough to steal your essence."

"Jonothan, who is behind this?" She looks at him desperate to end this.

"Deep down inside, you know the answer. Put the pieces together, the little tid bits from last night, you already know what is going on here."

"No," She's on her knees weakened from this whole dream. "I really don't."

"Turn around to find out, young sky walker"¦"¦errrr Rosenberg."

She feels the power behind and is now very afraid, she knows what is behind her, she knows what is going to attack her. "I don't want to."

Jonothan gives a sweet smile. "But you need to, it will put the pieces together a little more. Willow turn around."

Willow turns and is now face to face with her worse night. The black hair, the dark eyes, the sinister smile, the veinsoming out of her forehead, the pale skin, she is standing face to face with herself. But not the "herself" she knows and loves, but the evil wicka Willow. Evil wicka Willow looks at her with penetrating eyes and just says two things. "BORED NOW!"

With the point of her hand a green energy blast shoots at her knocking her back into the real world, sweaty and screaming at the top of her lungs.
 
Here's even more and to clarify on the last update, Tara is not evil and I dindn't mean to prtray her that way, it was just one of Willow's fears, lotsa subtext in that last update. Anyways, here's more:


"It was so terrible." Willow elaborates in the kitchen about the dream she just had. "You guys were saying mean things and there was somebody there, he was trying to tell me something important."

Xander hands her a cup of coffee he just made, he looks like a man who has just been waken up by a screaming woman, in fact he is. He was hoping to at least get two hours of sleep before he went on to his new job, but now it's four in the morning. But he needs to be there for his old friend, apparently this whole situation with her magic is much worse than he thought. Who was "˜he'? And what did he tell you?"

"That's the part I can't remember that well, I know he was someone I know and that he felt like he was the only thing that was "˜really' there?" Willow explains snuggling in Kennedy's arms, Willow's screaming pretty much woke up the whole fourth floor of the complex. Luckily, Vi and Andrew were able to get back to sleep, Vi took the couch and Andrew slept on the floor right beside the couch with a smile on his face. "Well, him and the thing that attacked me at the end of it, but that presence was there all through out the dream."

"It's all done and over with." Kennedy assures her girlfriend although they all know it's far from over, in fact Xander has a feeling it has just begun.

"And it's not the primitive?" He knows it's not, but he figures he should ask anyway.

"You know it's not." Kennedy grabs at her being more and more concerned.

"I know," He begins as he figures since he's not going to be getting any more sleep for the next few hours, he might as well figure this out all at once. " How long have you been having these dreams or feeling out of place or whatever is? I know that it didn't just start tonight."

"You've been talking in your sleep a lot lately." Kennedy confirms what Willow had been fearing for quite awhile now.

"About a week." She answers reluctantly. "I tried hiding it, I jus thought it was a passing thing."

"So these dreams started to surface around the same time you began to lose your magic?" Kennedy asks.

"More or less the essence that I have to perform magic, I have become totally disabled."

"And we arrived here about a week ago." Xander pauses then tries to gather his thoughts. "Alright, so we get here a week ago, around that time Willow loses control of her witchyness and has psyched out dreams."

"So what's the deal why would someone want to take Willow's magic away?"

"I'm guessing to weaken us."

"Why?" Kennedy asks none the wiser.

"So we would be defenseless during the attack earlier tonight." Xander answers still putting the info together in his head. "So whoever is behind this can get the scythe."

"Wait," Kennedy looks at both of them now sitting on the counter. "You think that those wannabe slayers are behind Willow losing her magic?"

"First off, they ARE slayers and by the looks of things they are well trained. Look at the facts, last night we summon the Mizerak, the Mizerak pretty much weakens our two slayers. Then as the Mizerak is about to tell us where the hell mouth is, he is taken out. Then those slayers come in and beat the crap out two already weakened slayers and with Willow unable to perform as good as she used to, giving them the perfect opportunity to take the strongest weapon we have."

"And there is more"¦." Willow begins thinking more and more about the events of the night before. " Those girls were protected by magic, very powerful magic."

"Yeah," Xander exclaims remembering more and more about the night before. " The blast that took the Mizerak out, the force that sent the three of us flying."

"And the force field that worked as a trap to steal the rest of my magic. They had a powerful witch protecting them, no doubt."

"The girls DID say they had a watcher." Xander adds in to the conversation.

"Wait," Kennedy looks confused, she hasn't been around long enough to play catch up with Willow and Xander who have been doing this type of thing for years. "So, the new watcher's council is involved in this?"

"Perhaps." Xander scratches his head thinking this over. "But from what I hear, Giles is pretty much heading up this reformation of the council and I don't want to think about him being behind this."

"Or it is someone pretending to be the watcher." Willow points out.

"That makes a whole lot more sense. But the disturbing thing is that whoever or whatever is behind this knew that we were coming. I mean it struck right when we got here, must've been planning this for awhile." He hates having to think right now, he is really tired. He might be hallucinating as well, in the corner of his eye it looks like Vi and Andrew are holding hands in their sleep. He looks all the way over notices that they aren't now, and they are fast asleep. "This is so wrong."

"Well," Willow begins. "When we signed on for this, did we really expect a walk in the park?"

"But we didn't think everything would happen all at once." Kennedy adds. "My question is, what are they after? The scythe?"

"Or to protect the hell mouth." Xander replies.

"Or both."

"So what's plan?" Kennedy and Willow both look at Xander.

"What are you looking at me for?"

"Well, you are my watcher, aren't you?" Kennedy asks sarcastically.

"Okay, tomorrow I have my teaching job to go to. What are your girls plans for the day?"

"I have an interview at 2:00 besides that I'm free." Willow answers.

"Kennedy, do you have an interview or anything?"

"Nope, I haven't even tried looking."

"Alright, need you to do some scouting around, see if you can find any nests or demon that can give you information on these girls. I'll have Andrew research spells or summons or artifacts that can steal magic or whatever."

Kennedy looks at him very bitter. "That's not going to get us anywhere. We need to kick these girl's asses, we need that Scythe back. I need that scythe back."

He takes another sip of his coffee looking at his unreasonable charge with distaste. "Yes, we know that, we do have to get the scythe back. But we cannot do that until we find their location, believe me, no one wants a shot at these girls and their watcher more than me. But we can't beat them if we can't find them."

Kennedy is about to yell at Xander again, but Willow puts her hand over her mouth. "He's got a point sweety."

"Willow," Xander begins. "Do you think you are up to doubling up on the watching tomorrow or tonight or whatever it is."

"I might be up for it, I'll need a lot of weapons."

"It's just light work, you'll need to be watching Vi as she hunts for vampires in clubs and graveyards the usual." He gets up from his chair in the kitchen.

"Why can't I go with Willow?" Kennedy argues.

"Because you and me will be hunting for these weird slayer girls. That's what you wanted right?" Xander, very grumpy, asks.

"Yes." She has nothing to follow that but then she realizes that Xander is walking away. "Where are you going?"
As he walks into the room, wondering if Gils ever had nights like these where he can't get the thoughts out of his head. Too much exposition for this new watcher, Xander thinks and soon he'll have to get up to go to work. "I'm going to get my needed one hour of sleep." He slams the door and crashes on the big comfy bed that the girls usually sleep on.

Author's note: Yeah, I hit a bit of a lull in the story, but filler scenes like these are needed to put things together. Next update should be tomorrow, that should be a good one, Vi's first day of High School and much more.
 
Here's some more:

"Wait, you read X-Men?"

"Religiously," Vi begins. "Well, before I became a slayer, I guess I'm kind of a geek."

The "˜Knight Rider' knock off car screeches into the parking lot of Burton High School, Xander never knew that Andrew could drive like that. But he figures Andrew has been acting different for the last couple of days and he thinks he knows why now. He is actually positive why both him and Vi have been acting semi-unusual, they actually remind him of the way he and Willow were acting for a few months, but he seriously doubt they have even gone as far as to be up front with their feelings yet. He listens to the two of them talk in the front seats and can't help but think that they are so cute together. He hates to do this to his new buddy, but he needs to give Andrew his agenda for the day, he finds it best to keep the little nerd busy. From the back seat he leans over and sneaks up next to Andrew. " I hate to interrupt, but we have some stuff to go over before you go off to watch reruns of Quantum Leap."

"That show was so over rated." Andrew replies, then goes on. "I usually watch Babylon 5 and Farscape on Sci Fi."

"Andrew, remember the whole "˜rant' conversation we had?" Xander asks him.

Andrew sighs. "Most people aren't interested in the same stuff I'm interested in, so I should keep the sci fi talk to a minimum."

Andrew parks the car in front of the school and looks back at Xander as Vi grabs her bag and notebooks. " I need you to do some major research today?"

"Another demon?" Andrew moans.

"No, actually. I'm going to need you to look up on what Willow's could be? See you can find any history of witch's losing their mojo and having weird dreams."

"I didn't sign on to do research, couldn't I chase down vampires or beat the crap out of snitch?" Andrew asks.

"Well, I see that you aren't as humble as you were last night. Sorry Andrew, that's just part of moving on up the food chain, you have to earn your stripes by doing boring stuff."

Vi opens the door of car and looks at Andrew very nervous about starting anew somewhere else. "Well, guess it's time to begin living the double life. I wonder if Buffy was ever as nervous as I am."

Andrew gives her a confident look. "You'll do fine."

Vi's face turns red as he says this. "Thank you, good luck with your research."

"See you in class." Xander says as she leaves the car and begins walking up to the High School. Grabbing his stuff, he looks back at Andrew with a twinkle in his one good eye. Andrew looks at him, knowing his going to start hinting to something. "Look at her go, off to make new friends, meet boys."

Andrew tries to play dumb. "What are you talking about?"

"It would just be a pity if there was someone who had feelings for her and he didn't do something about it until she found someone else." A lot of this is going by a lot of his o experiences with the opposite sex. Up until last night he didn't think that Andrew was into the opposite sex, but he doesn't want him missing out on something he really wants.

Andrew is shocked, he thought he was doing a good job of covering up the tension over the last day. "I"¦..I don't know"¦."

"JUST GO ASK HER OUT ON A DATE BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE DOES!" Xander demands as Andrew now looks very scared.

Without saying a word, he jumps out of the car with phony determination plastered on his face, Xander watches from the car hoping his boy will actually go through with it. Andrew walks amongst the high school students, very shaky, he feels sort of out of place chasing down a girl who is probably going to reject him. He finally spots her walking towards the office of the High School, he runs pass all the other students the tension building even more. In his mind, he practices what he's going to say, how he's going to say it, but he still can't see any situation to where he's not going to get rejected. He is finally right behind her, slowing down, "Vi."

She turns around bumping right into him, dropping all of her books and folders. "Andrew? What's wrong?" She asks bending down to pick up her stuff, Andrew kneels down to help her out.

"Um"¦ Nothing's wrong. I just wanted to uh"¦." He pauses still trying to gather her stuff together for her.

"What is it? Are you trying to ask me something?" She gathers all her books as Andrew adds a couple more on top.

"Uh"¦. I just wanted to ask you if"¦." He pauses for a very long time.

"Yes?" She hopes that he's going to ask her what she wants him to ask.

"Uh"¦yeah"¦" He tries to begin again. "Do you like Agent Mulder or Agent Doggit?"

He looks back up at her, she seems very disappointed, but goes along with the question. "Mulder, Doggit was just a bad replacement. But that show should've ended at Season 7."

Even though scolding himself in his head, he does like her answer. " Yeah, I completely agree with that."

They both just stand there looking at eachother for a moment, soaking in the awkward moment. But Vi has to interrupt it anyway. "Well, I got to go to class."

"Yeah," He looks at her, now being very dissapointed. "Sorry, to keep you."

"No, thank you for that." She now is very nervous. "Whatever that was."

"Have a good day at school." He says with a half smile, then she does something he didn't expect, she leans over and gives him a hug. They both look at each other for a moment, then she runs off towards the office. She gives him a sweet smile and a wave before she goes in.

"So," A voice from behind says as a hand over his shoulder. Andrew turns back to see Xander, Andrew turns red for a moment. "How did it go?"

"It went good. I was smooth." He lies to his mentor.

"You ended up talking about X-Files, didn't you?" Xander asks holding some objects for his new teaching job.
"Yeah, maybe tomorrow." Andrew looks hopeful and walks off to the car, very upset with himself.
 
awww poor nerdy bear! lol i hope they go out! and its
very good as usual!
 
Here's another short little scene:

After second period gets out, Xander is thankful he gets a fifteen-minute break to relax and take this new experience in. He never realized how hard teaching teenagers how to build a spice rack could be, too much AOL for these kids, he figures. Maybe he's just grumpy because he didn't get too much sleep last night and his worries about the missing scythe, Willow's missing magics and new bad slayers with an unknown watcher. When he was told that he had become a watcher, his worst fear is that he would mess it up in a major way, worse than Wesley's screw up with Faith. Although, it wasn't all Wesley's fault, god knows the young brit didn't help much though, the council has a way of making scapegoats. Wesley became the laughing stock of the council, even though it's a new council, he does know that for every Watcher like Giles, there's five who are uptight like Quentin Traverse. And another question that pops into the young watcher's mind is, why hasn't he called Giles yet to ask for advice? Is he ashamed that he messed up on his first two of watcherness? Probably, but he told everyone he wasn't cut out for this job, it's not his fault if he screws up. But it would be if anyone of his girls died, he's seen way too much death over the last couple of years, too many loved ones died for this campaign he signed on for without thinking years ago.

Just as his thoughts go towards Anya, he is taken by a figure in the doorway of his classroom, a very curvy figure at that. "Hi, I'm not interrupting am I?" He is taken aback by this lovely woman's looks, blonde hair pulled back, wire frame glasses, mini-skirt and she is giving him a sweet smile.

"No, not at all." He puts his wooden objects and tools aside and stares at her with his one eye. "Come in. Ummm, Ms. "¦ Didn't catch your name seeing that this is the first time we met."

The blonde lady walks in, he's pretty sure she is a teacher, seeing that she looks to be a good five years older then him, but still very beautiful. "Sterling, actually, it's Josephine Sterling, but you can just call me Joe, I teach match. And you are?"

"The stereotypical one eyed shop teacher." She giggles at his goofy charm, he smiles back at her. "But I was given the name Xander Harris, I teach, well, wood shop" He raises his arms to show off the shop.

" I noticed and it's good to meet you, Mr. Harris." She smiles at him, still looking around Xander's messy classroom.

"Good to meet you too, Joe. So what brings a math teacher over to the buff manly wood shop where macho spice racks are made?" He sits on his desk in his flimsy sports coat with the leather patched into the elbows.

"You're a funny one aren't you?" She walks even closer to him, he gets more and more nervous as this conversation just begins. "I just came to welcome you to Burton High School, where nothing interesting ever happens."

"Sure beats Sunnydale High." He doesn't know why he says that, he doesn't expect her to understand what he talking about. He thinks Buffy would have gotten the joke.

"Is that where you used to teach?"

"Actually, that's where I used to be a student." He realizes how stupid that sounds. "This is my first teaching job."

She is about to say something, but then another thought comes to this beautiful teacher's mind. "Wait, Sunnydale, isn't the town that turned into a crater over night? You come from there?"

He is caught off guard by that question, he shouldn't have let that slip, he can't blow his cover. "One in the same, but I left before that happened. Nobody knows what caused the implosion." He hates lying to this teacher, but he can't tell her exactly what happened, he doesn't even know her.

"So, if you are just beginning as a teacher, what did you do before this?"

"Construction, actually." He answers her with a smile.

"So, this job is right up your alley then? Besides the working with teenagers thing?"

"Well, I actually I have some experience working with teenage girls." He realizes that that isn't the right thing to say to someone who doesn't know what he does in real life. She looks like she is about to call the cops. "That didn't come out the way it was supposed to sound. I helped my best friend raise her teenage sister after their mother died."

"Oh, that isn't as bad as it sounded at first. In fact, it's sounds very sweet, you seem like someone who watches after his friends." He is surprised that she is right onto him, he does have a thing for taking care of the people around. That's how he got the watcher job after all. She takes a moment to look at his face, then he realizes that the eye patch question is going to come up. "I hate to ask this, but what happened to your eye?"

"Insane super strong preacher poked it out." He knows that she is not going to believe that, hopes she takes it as a joke and not that he's crazy.

"You have quite the sense of humor don't you? Really, how did it happen?" Joe Sterling giggles a little bit.

"Just a construction job gone horribly wrong. That's why I had to retire from that to do this."

"Well, that's not good, I'm very sorry." She looks at her watch and then back at him. "Well, I better get back to class. Hey maybe we could meet up during lunch break and get to knowch other better."

"Yeah, sounds like a plan." The pain in his stomach begins to rise as he says this.

"It's a date, Xander Harris." As she leaves the room, he suddenly realizes what that pain is. He feels like he is already betraying Anya, is this too soon? He thinks to himself as he watches the pretty teacher leave the classroom.
 
Hey sorry I haven't responded lately i'm kind of falling behind. You're quick with the posting. I'll respond to the update as soon as i catch up.
 
Yeah, I have been just inspired to write alot since I began this fic, so that's why the posting has been happenning so quickly. Anyways, before I get to writing the next part, I just wanted to ask the people who have been readin g this fic something. How am I doing with staying true to the characters? I'm havin the hardest time with that in my opinion, especially with Xander who I am trying to promote from comic relief to something a tad bit more serious, also with losing his eye and Anya, I don't think he would be cracking jokes twenty four seven just yet. But I still want to stay true to him and all the others. So if I can get some feedback on how I'm doing with the characters, that would be cool.
 
I think your doing an awsome job with each character. I think your right on the whole Xander thing not joking just yet, because it is a thing that takes time so its not like ok well it happened so lets just go on the way we did. But I think your doing a great job, keep up the good work 🙂
 
::Takes your hands away from you:: I can't keep up! I don't remember half I read! LoL! It's great! Really great! Just keep going, but... sssslllllloooowwwweeerrrr. LoL. The two evil Slayers, great, but they got the scythe. Vi is my favorite slayer, so im glad she's in the story. The cheese guy is great, really funny. Continue.
 
YEs, all hail The Cheeseman! And alas, I haven't slowed down. Here's the next scene:
As soon as the bell for lunch rings, Dorian Sykes stashes his bottle of rum in the bushes by the tennis court and lights up his cigarette. He hasn't felt more alive before in his life, the high from last night still hasn't gotten out of his system completely. What was that the old man gave him? Better than acid, probably better than PCP, he imagines. Dorian is one of those stereotypical rebel burnouts, brown hair that goes down to his ears, facial hair just growing on his chin, jeans, black "Misfits" t-shirt, leather jacket, the works. But now he is a step above all the other stoners, he can feel the power surging through his body, he can do anything. And it's all thanks to the two beautiful girls who stand across from him, both identical, both with dark hair and even darker lipstick. Although, they are both short, they are also very fit and Dorian likes that a lot. Are they good enough for a commitment? Nope, neither of them, but they are good enough for a fun time. But they did provide him with a quick fix. He looks over at Elaina and Eliza with a smirk. "So are we on for this after noon? I need to get me some more of what your old friend gave me."

"Of course," Eliza rubs up to him, while massaging his chest. "Mr. Winston says that you are going to be playing a big role in our little clan and to be honest, we need a sexy beast like you around."

Elaina comes up from behind and rubs her hands on his shoulders, he thinks these are the kinkiest twins he had ever met. "Yeah, it would be good to have you with us, officially."

"Yeah, but Winston says I need to be initiated into the clan, you guys got a free ticket because of your abilities." Dorian answers worried about what this may consist of, but he does want to be part of this group, he wants to be what Mr. Winston is.

"Mr. Winston really likes you, Sykes." Eliza begins. "it shouldn't be that hard to join up. Especially with the little gift that he rewarded us with last night."

"Yes, it is quite exquisite, when I touch it feels like my body is on fire." The twins continue to massage the boy, he has a wide smile on his face.

"I can't wait to feel it." He is getting more and more aroused by these two girls.

"Sorry baby, but it won't work with you."

"Your not part of the line." The two twins break off of Dorian.

"What is this line you two always talk about?" He is very confused about their lineage "Is that where your super strength comes from?"

"Sort of." Eliza says.

"You get to see what we use it for this after noon." Elaina adds. "But for now, we have to go."

"See you soon sweetie." Eliza says as the two girls walk off leaving him wanting more of them and more of what he had last night.

"Yeah, see you at the next class." He waves to them, still feeling the buzz. He waits until he is done with his smoke and then walks back towards the quad feeling the vibration of the booze and last night. Although only sixteen, he knows that there is more to this world than what he sees. He believes in love and evil and higher beings, especially after the stuff he took last night. But he has always had a wild imagination and has wanted adventure, that is probably why he started experimenting at an early age. But still he feels like that little kid who dreamed of being a Power Ranger years ago, even though he has gone to deeper and darker adventures. But there is a part of him that doesn't like this new place he has gone to over the last couple of years, a part that is more aware of evil. But most of him feels like at least he is a part of the cosmic struggle, wether it be on the side of good or naughty evil, he just likes being involved in this adventure.

His thoughts are stopped as he, no looking or thinking, runs into something or to be more correct someone. He looks down to the girl he just ran into and then suddenly the lights in his head go on. She is perhaps the cutest girl he has ever seen. Her red hair blows with the wind as she smiles at Dorian, he smiles back, he knows he can make her melt if he really wanted to. "Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going."

"No, it was my fault, I've been bumping into a lot of people today. First day jitters and all." Luckily this time she wasn't carrying anything.

"Your new here?" Of course she's new, he thinks to himself, he's never seen her before. But then again, he's never been showing up at class for the last couple of months.

"Yeah, just began today. Kind of weird not knowing any one." She is surprised how fast she has gotten herself into a conversation with this boy.

"I'm Dorian, now you know someone." He thinks to himself that he is slick, the confidence has been building for the last couple of hours. "And you are?"

"Vi, nice to meet you Dorian." She begins to walk towards to quad as he follows her, he can't let her get away, he needs to get to know her.

"Vi, that's a very interesting name. How do you spell that?" She's already got hooked and he hasn't been talking to her for a minute.

"Just a V and an I, very simple actually." She isn't too sure about this kid just yet, but he does have that bad boy look going for him. They walk through the quad and Vi catches a glimpse of her Watcher, Xander talking to another teacher on one of the benches. They give each other a glance, then she goes on her way.

Sure he's already charming her, he decides he wants to continue the conversation. "So what class do you have next?"

"Wood shop, not really my choice, but I needed an elective." They make their into the hallways of the school, she has an unsure look on her face while Dorian has a grin.

"Cool, that's my next class." He follows Vi to her locker.

"Really?" She can smell the rum on his breath, but is getting more and more interested in him. He is being a whole lot more persistent than some guys she knows.

"Yeah," He confirms for her. " Well, seeing that we have the same class next and that you don't know anybody quite yet, why don't you spend your lunch break with me?"

"That sounds nice." It does sound nice to her, but that stench is really getting to her. "Have you been drinking?"

"Yeah," he hopes she isn't one of those squeaky clean girls, but then he thinks that even if she is, he can deal with it. "I got a bottle stashed by the tennis courts, you want to go have a few swigs?"

"I think I'll pass for now." Although she isn't against drinking, Faith used to let her drink on occasions when Buffy was around, in fact she encouraged her to drink, she knows that school isn't the place for it.

She pulls her backpack from her locker, but Dorian gently reaches for it. "Let me get that for you."

She thinks that that is very sweet of him to do, again, he's putting a lot of effort into her right now. She likes that a lot. "Thanks!"

"Not a problem." He knows he has her pretty much under his thumb, just one more thing he needs to know. "Allow me to cut to the chase and ask you one quick question."

"What is it?" The more she talks to him, the more Andrew leaves her mind, which isn't such a bad thing. But still, Andrew is sweet, and that never leaves her.

"Are you seeing anyone right now?" He asks while toting her fairly heavy bag.

"Uh"¦" She really doesn't know the answer to that because there is something there with Andrew, at least she thinks. But this guy is putting a lot more effort within the first five minutes of meeting her than Andrew has since the night they had that wonderful talk. "No, not at this moment."

"Well, that's a good thing for me then." She's never had a guy be so up front with her before.

"Well, I guess it is." She didn't mean to lead him on with that, but she doesn't regret it. She thinks for a moment. "I think we tapped the "˜Wells'."

It takes a few moments for the burnout to get the joke, but then he laughs. "Where are you from, anyway?"
She doesn't know what to tell him, Sunnydale? Chicago? She knows that she probably shouldn't give him "˜real' information just yet, she's not really here to be a student in the first place. " Canada, I'm sort of a foreign exchange student, I live with a few other people who took me in."

He thinks for a minute about this, luckily he doesn't know canadians from Irish people othe foreign exchange student program works. "Really? How is it up there in Canada?"

"Boring, very boring." Even though the last year hasn't been boring what so ever.

"Well, Cleveland isn't exactly the hometown of excitement."

"Yeah, well, anything is better than being chased by eyeless freaks." She didn't mean to let that slip. He looks at her confused. "I worked with disgruntled blind people."

Dorian laughs a little at this. "Sounds like fun."
 
The fifth period bell rings and Xander finds himself barely making it through the doors on time, this is way too much like being a teenager again. But he thinks of the conversation he just had with the lovely math teacher, Joe. Still, the feeling of betrayal beats within his heart as he enters the classroom. But he knows he can't think of that now, he's got a class to teach. When he gets in and looks at his class, he feels bad for Andrew, because it looks like Vi is really hitting it off with the boy he saw her walking with in the quad. Oh well, he figures it's really none of his business what Vi is looking for in a guy, but this boy seems pretty scuzzy, but girls like that. He goes to his desk and pretends to file some papers together then looks back up at his class. "Alright, let's get started, I am your new teacher, Mr. Harris."

He is interrupted by two figures walking into the wood shop, he is stunned once he realizes who the two girls are. The slayer twins also look shocked when they gaze at Xander, both of them glance over at Dorian and realize that another slayer is there, once more is talking to their guy friend. Vi stands up to join the stare down, Dorian looks up at her, wondering what she is doing. Xander sucks it in and then smiles at the girls. "Your late for class, girls."

"We are oh so sorry, Mr"¦." Eliza also smiling pauses. "What was your name again?"

"Mr. Harris, I'm your new shop teacher. And what are your girls names?" He tries to keep the fake smile on.

"You should know that by now, I'm Elaina and she is Eliza." Both girls are now smiling at how the tables have turned just a little bit.

"What are your last names?"

"Seymore, any other questions Mr. Hatz." Eliza has a sarcastic look on her face.

"No, go take an empty counter and the names Harris." He gives back a smart ass grin.

The girls walk away smiling at their teacher almost seductively as they take an empty counter behind Dorian and Vi. Xander thinks this could be trouble, but fortunately, Vi knows how to handle herself and to pretend like she never met these girls. And fortunately, they also pretend like they don't know what's going to play with Vi's head a little bit. Dorian looks back at the girls and gives them a look. " What was that all about, girls?"

"Just another teacher who is sore because he can't get hot girls like us anymore." Eliza says.
"Yeah, I bet." Dorian replies while Vi tries to look the other way.

"Hey Dorian, who's your little friend?"

"Oh yeah," He looks back at Vi, both the girls grimace at the fact that their man is hanging out with their enemy. He gestures for Vi to turn around and look at the other girls. "Vi, this is Eliza and Elaina, the twins. Twins this is Vi."

Vi tries to make it quick without talkind to the girls who have the slayer scythe. "Hi."

"That's a cute little name you have." Elaina points out very smuggly.

Eliza jumps in. "Yeah, I'm sure we'll be getting to know you a whole lot more."





The bell finally leaves and the students leave their projects behind and scatter out of the classroom. Dorian wonders why Vi is staying where she is waiting for everyone to leave just as their new teacher is doing so. "Vi, you coming?"

"Go on ahead, Dorian. I need to talk to Mr. Harris."

Eliza and Elaina grab Dorian and push him towards the door. "Come on, you don't want to waste your time on that sickly girl. We have some fun in store for you, baby."

"Yeah, but I really want to stay and talk to Vi." He tries to explain to the girls that he has hooked up with more than once.

"She's not important right now, you can swoon over her later." Elaina explains as they are stopped by Xander.

"What's the rush girls?" He looks at the twins and Dorian who is very torn between these two girls and the lovely red head. "Dorian, right?"

He looks up at the new shop teacher with a little attitude. "Yeah, that's right. What's the big deal harassing these girls?" He asks trying to where the big man pants.

"Dorian, you can leave." He stares at the punk for a couple of minutes, the punk stares back very stubborn. "Now!" With that push from authority Dorian walks out deciding to wait for the girls in the quad and still not getting the thought of Vi out of his head.

"What's the big idea, teach?"

"Have we been naughty girls?" The girls snicker at this.

"Do you wanna give us a pankin?"

Xander waits until the class is empty, except for him, Vi and the two girls. Vi walks up to the front of the class room to join her watcher, the two stare the girls down. "Alright, do I need to play twenty questions or are you going to tell us exactly what's going on?"

"Why should we tell you anything?" Eliza asks.

"We whupped your ass last night, now we just have a Watcher and one slayer. What makes you think you can get the information out of us?"

Vi looks at Xander, worried. "They got a point, Xander."

He looks at her and then looks back at the twins who are smiling that the cards are in their hands. " Just tell us what you plan to do with the scythe?"

"Again,"

"Why should we?"

"Because we are going to get it from you one way or the other." Xander tries to show some phony confidence in these words.

. "How?" A british accent replies walking through the doorway. "With a powerless witch, a slayer drunk on pride, another slayer who is still an amateur, a geek who's only real talent is quoting Dr. Who and an untrained Watcher?"

"ETHAN RAINE!" Xander says shocked at the appearance of Giles old rival.

"Winston!" The girls shout as they turn to their watcher.

"One and the same." Ethan Raine has a wide smile on his face as he walks into the classroom. Vi has no clue who this man, she's heard a few things from Giles about him, but nothing too concrete, just that he is always getting his ass kicked by Buffy, but Buffy is not here. " You see Xander, I am these girl's watcher now and I only want the best for my girls." Ethan steps in front of the girls with pride and confidence. Xander reaches for a mini crossbow that he put in his desk. "I wouldn't do that, Mr. Harris. For one reason, we are humans, you can't kill us, it would be against your morals. And for a second, we are protected by great power now. Miss Rosenberg has been experiencing that power being taken from her for the last couple of weeks now."

"How are you taking Willow's magics away?" Vi asks.

"Not how, reverse "˜how' around and you might find the answer. But that is a surprise for another day and you know me. I'm full of delightful surprises."

"Wait," Xander needs to think for a moment. "This so isn't like you, Ethan. You usually do lame retarded stunts, like candy that turns grown ups into teens and costumes that possess kids. This isn't chaos, it's too planned to be chaos."

Ethan breathes in real quickly. "Isn't it? This is chaos at it's very essence, should be more for you than it is for me actually. You didn't see it coming, did you? The loss of Willow's magic, the appearance of twin slayers, not finding the hellmouth, losing your scythe, that is chaos at it's purest form. Plus, I have grown tired of those random spells, it was time to step up the game a little bit."

"So what's the plan Ethan?" Xander is actually quite afraid of facing Ethan without Giles or Buffy, especially this new strategic Ethan. "Protect the hellmouth? Have your slayers being the only holders of the scythe?"

"Wouldn't you like to know, the hellmouth doesn't have much to do with it. We destroyed files on it and absorbed Willow's locating ability to confuse you even more. Plus, the hellmouth is the least of your concern now. Your going to be too busy figuring out what our next move will be."

Xander leaps towards him, but is thrown off by an unknown force. Eliza goes to kick when he is down but is met by a fist from Vi. Vi is knocked to the ground by Elaina and the twins and Ethan laugh widly. "Nice try wannabes, we are the true slayers now."

"Remember what I said about being protected?" He looks at Xander who is now being kicked by Elaina and Eliza. "Did you think I was bluffing. Just wait around and see what else The Disciples of Chaos can do." Ethan begins to walk out of the class room as the girls follow giggling with excitement.
 
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